Tagged: Coal Port

QuayQuip QCL Cell Fenders are hard at work protecting the new Muelle de Carbon (coal port) at Isla Riesco in southern Chile.

Part of a $530 million mining development project aimed at bolstering Chile’s independence from energy imports, the $50 million port at Isla Riesco will ship up to six million tonnes of coal every year from three new mines.

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In 2011, construction work began on a new coal port at Puerto Neuvo, in the Magdalena region of Colombia. The $60 million project has created a direct loading, multi-user coal port that should be fully operational by early 2013. Puerto Nuevo is expected to handle 30 million tonnes of low sulphur coal, rising to 40 million tonnes within a few years.

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